Books by Susan Niditch

Treating Old Testament stories as the product of an oral traditional world, this title sets biblical narrative in a broad cross-cultural context and reveals much about the richness and complexity of the ancient Israelite civilization that produced it.

This book is an essential resource for understanding the question of the Bible's relationship to orality. Susan Niditch offers a strong argument for the continuity of the literature of the Israelites. She helps the modern reader look at the Bible as living words, breathing life into us daily, instead of seeing the text as a foregone...

Looks at Genesis 1-11 from the perspectives of comparative literature and cultural anthropology. This book reveals how Hebrew narratives of chaos, creation, and cosmos structure a mythic-literary world and create an order for human existence.